Cigarette package opener



Nov. 1, 192.2. Q D HUFF 1,886,021

CIGARETTE PACKAGE OPENER Filed April 5. 19:52

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INVENTOR, Georgen Huff.

TTORN Nov. 1, 1932 STATES GEORGE D. EUFF, 0F IBELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON CIGARETTE PACKAGE OPENER Application filed April 5,

My invention relates to improvements in cigarette package openers and has for an object to provide convenient means to easily and quickly cut the cellophane covering of cigarette packages.

Another object of my improvement is to provide a cigarette package opener having display surfaces suitable for advertising purposes.

1 attain these and other objects yof my improvement with the device illustrated in the accompanying sheet of drawing which forms a part of this specification and in which Figure 1 is a plan view vof my cigarette package opener, Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a front elevation of Fig. 1, Fig. 4 is a rear end elevation of the package opener and Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the package 'opener knife.

Similar characters refer to similar parts throughout.

Vith more particular reference to the designated parts: A metal plate is bent at right angles providing the base 6 and the bracket 7.

The base 6 has openings a6 therein through which screws or similar fastening means may be extended to secure the device to any desired support.

rlhe upper corners of the bracket 7 are bent forward to form lugs 8, 8 providing channel a7 between the said lugs.

Near the bottom of the bracket 7 is the horizontal slot opening 9 through which is eX- tended the bolt 10, and also in the said bracket in a horizontal line with the slot 10` is an opening through which the bolt 11 is extended.

A suitable shape of knife for my package opener is shown at 12 having the cutting edge 13 and end notches 14, 14.

rlhe knife 12 is placed by the side of bracket 7, in front thereof with the cutting edge 13 uppermost and with notches 14, 14 engaged by bolts 10 and 11.

rhe said bolts 10 and 11 have the washers 15,15 beneath the heads thereof and the washers 16, 16 beneath the nuts thereon. The said bolts also are extended through washers 17, 17 which are disposed between the knife 12 and the bracket 7 to offset the knife from 1932. Serial No. 603,340.

the bracket. The construction provides for securely clamping the knife to the bracket by the bolts with an intervening space.

The shape of the knife 12 is that of a popular safety razor blade. The slot 9 in the bracket provides for clamping other wellknown makes of razor blades to the bracket of my device.

The described device is suited to stand on a table or counter to which it may be fastened, if desired, by screws extended through holes a6 in the base 6. rAlso it may be fastened to a wall or other vertical support with bracket 7 uppermost and the base 6 bearing thereon.

An end of a package of cigarettes which is desired to have opened by this device is placed in channel a7 bearing thereon and moved downward on to the cutting edge of the knife which will cut through the cellophane covering thereon and provide a flap thereof which may be used as a linger hold to tear off or open as much of the end covering of the cigarettes by hand as desired after removing the package from the knife.

It is a useful purpose and object of this invention to provide an area on the device for advertising display. The base 6 thereof may be of any shape and dimensions desired and used for this purpose. The drawing as filed with this application is drawn on an enlarged scale for the aid of clearness. The disclosed device is susceptible of minor changes within the scope of the invention, and such are also claimed as a part thereof.

Having thus disclosed my invention, what I claim as newtherein and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- A device of the character described including a metal plate bent at right angles providing a base and a bracket, two spaced lugs on the bracket wall overhanging the said base providing a channel on said bracket wall, and a blade removably fastened flatwise to the said bracket wall offset therefrom between the said lugs and the said base with its cutting edge adjacent the said lugs.

GEORGE. D. HUFF. 

